In response to "Gary Gatten" <ggat...@waddell.com>: > It could just be me, but I swear Hardware RAID has been faster for many > many years, especially with RAID5 arrays - or anything that requires > parity calcs. Most of my benchmarking was done on SCO OpenServer and > Novell UnixWare and Netware, but hardware RAID controllers were always > faster and of course required far less host CPU resources. Raid > 0/1/10/0+1/whatever arrays, I recall weren't as drastic, but I can't > imagine the controller making as big a difference as the drives in the > array - unless of course the drive for said controller sux!
Keep in mind that there are a LOT of RAID controllers out there, and yes, some of them suck royally. Especially the consumer-grade stuff intended for people to use on their home systems. I'd be willing to bet that software RAID is faster than 90% of the consumer grade RAID cards, and probably more reliable than most of them as well. Controllers make a huge difference, even in server class RAID (in my experience). There is a significant gap in performance between the good stuff and the good enough stuff. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/ _______________________________________________ freebsd-performance@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-performance To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-performance-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"